The Bible is all about relationships. Firstly, it describes how our relationship with God should be, and secondly, it talks about our relationship with one another. I discussed our relationship with God the Father a bit in this post on the Lord’s Prayer. But there is more. Hebrews 4:16 “16 Let...
Prayer – For Thine Is The Kingdom, And The Power, And The Glory, Forever, Amen John the Baptizer preached it. Matthew 3:1-2 “1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Jesus...
The Lord’s Prayer – Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil Hebrews 4:15 “15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as without sin.” It is...
Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors Even though this prayer is made so often that we seldom really think about the words, most of us are probably very sincere about the first half of this, “Forgive us our debts.” We want God to forgive our sins....
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread Matthew 6:26 “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” God, our heavenly Father, is our provider. When we...
Thy Will Be Done, On Earth As It Is In Heaven We say this as a matter of course when we are reciting the Lord’s Prayer, but do we really mean it? This is the beginning of the part of the Lord’s Prayer that if most people really thought...
Our Father The opening address of the what we call The Lord’s Prayer calls on the name of the Father. When Jesus said, “Our Father,” He was making a declarative statement. 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God is, after all, the progenitor, the...
Where do you look for God? Where can He be found? We have a tendency to go to God for big things and we expect great and wondrous things from him. We Ask God for physical healing, a job, a home, love, financial stability, and we look for dramatic...
What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What am I supposed to be doing? These are questions that we all ask ourselves at some point in our lives. Often it is late in high school or early in our college years. So...